Adding the forum name

How can I add the Forum name to the First Page News? As I have split my site up and using lots of forums it would be a help to see which forum the post is linked to.

Regards - MKJ

Additional modification will be needed.

In the addon_1stpagenews2.php after the line which says:

$xtr=getClForums($displayForums,'where','','forum_id','or','=');

add the following code:

/* Get forum titles and IDs */
$forumTitles=array();
if($res=db_simpleSelect(0,$Tf,'forum_id, forum_name')){
do $forumTitles[$res[0]]=$res[1]; while($res=db_simpleSelect(1));
}
/* --Get forum titles and IDs */

After the line which says

$topics[$tid]['forum_id']=$res[5];

add:

$topics[$tid]['forum_title']=$forumTitles[$res[5]];

Afterall paste the variable {$forum_title} in the template addon_1stpagenews_cell2.html

Works great.

Thanks - MKJ

Hi there,

How I do stop the script from getting the poster's name and any other not essential info ?

If I can explain, I just want the topics and their correct order (ok order is easy to set in the script) but not the poster who made the post.

I can change the templates to just not display this other info of course, but I am thinking it would be better to stop it trying to do this SQL query for the poster as well.

It doesn't matter how many fields you select in SQL query (well... it could matter for the BLOB fields or other large size fields, but not for the fields in miniBB). So just edit the templates and get your headache off.

ok thanks Paul

Hey!

How do i modify the script, so it will show html tags correctly? I have tried modifying line 74

$topics[$tid]['post_text']=substr(strip_tags(str_replace('<br />', "\n", $res[1])), 0, $maxTxtLength);

but all i got is three dots ... istead of message.

Thank you

Remove strip_tags function.

Aha...i removed too much. Thank You it works now.

Is it possible to also show breaks? Now, news are all in one line with no breaks.

Thanks!

Is it possible to also show breaks? Now, news are all in one line with no breaks.

This should work:
$topics[$tid]['post_text']=substr($res[1], 0, $maxTxtLength);

yep, this works excellent. Thanks lime

Hi all,

I am adding the "firstpage news" addon to my minibb-forum, but I am experience a weird problem.

When I call the http://www.mypage.com/forum/addon_1stpagenews2.php directly in my bowser everything works just fine, and I see the newest posts.

But when I add the javascrips on my frontpage :


<script type="text/javaScript" src="http://www.mypage.com/forum/addon_1stpagenews2.php"></script>

Nothing happends!

I have alot of javascripts working on the fronpage, but this one do not work.

What can possible be the problem?!

Best

Cromagx

In add-ons setting you need to define

$displayMethod=2;

Hi there,

I'm experiencing a problem with special characters when using the First Page add-on. My forum will be used in German and the German "Umlaute" like ü or ö are not displayed correctly. See screenshot below:



Any suggestions what I could do?

Thanks!! :-)

That could mean you have set up miniBB in the improper encoding. First of all, miniBB and your website should have the same encoding set. Second, miniBB and your database should have the same encoding. There are usually many problems coming with specific symbols, so we recommend always use UTF-8 as the default encoding for your database, miniBB and website. Here you can read how to my message in Upgrading thread may help you to get a clue about the database. Unfortunately, encoding issue is always custom so I can't give more information on this subject...